Crossword clues for holstein
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Holstein \Hol"stein\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of a breed of cattle, originally from Schleswig-Holstein, valued for the large amount of milk produced by the cows. The color is usually black and white in irregular patches.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
breed of cattle, 1865; so called because originally raised in nearby Friesland. The place name is literally "woodland settlers," from the roots of German Holz "wood" (see holt) and siedeln "to settle," altered by influence of Stein "stone." Since 15c. it has been united with the Duchy of Schleswig.
Wiktionary
n. (context rare English) (alternative spelling of Holstein nodot=1 English) ''(breed of cattle)''.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 99
Land area (2000): 0.223694 sq. miles (0.579364 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.223694 sq. miles (0.579364 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22815
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.464769 N, 98.649877 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68950
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Headwords:
Holstein
Housing Units (2000): 674
Land area (2000): 1.446875 sq. miles (3.747389 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009199 sq. miles (0.023826 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.456074 sq. miles (3.771215 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36840
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.486794 N, 95.542565 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51025
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Headwords:
Holstein
Wikipedia
Holstein ( Northern Low Saxon: Holsteen, , Latin and historical ) is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider. It is part of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany.
Holstein once existed as the County of Holstein (; 811–1474), the later Duchy of Holstein (; 1474–1866), and was the northernmost territory of the Holy Roman Empire. The history of Holstein is closely intertwined with the history of the Danish Duchy of Schleswig (Danish: Slesvig). The capital of Holstein is Kiel.
Holstein's name comes from the Holcetae, a Saxon tribe mentioned by Adam of Bremen as living on the north bank of the Elbe, to the west of Hamburg. The name means "dwellers in the wood" ( Northern Low Saxon: Hol(t)saten; ).
Holstein may refer to:
Hölstein is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Holstein is a station on the Sognsvann Line (line 6) of the Oslo Metro in Norway. The station is located between Kringsjå and Østhorn stations. Holstein was opened during the Second World War, in 1941. Formerly Nordberg was the next southbound station, but it was closed in 1992, at the same time as Holstein was re-built with longer platforms and new ticket machines. The name Holstein is believed to origin from Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.
Usage examples of "holstein".
The Acheulean sites at Abbeville are of the same age as the Holstein interglacial and would thus be about 330,000 years old.
Pollnitz must come, and Eckert, and Baron von Goltz, and Hacke, the Duke of Holstein, and General Schwerin.
Peter III from Holstein in the eighteenth century, but his father, Professor of Public Law at the University of Warsaw, was already more than half Russian by blood and an extreme Slavophil in his ideas.
In 1792 in the Duchy of Holstein there was an industrious laborer named Stender who died at one hundred and three, his food for the most part of his life having been oatmeal and buttermilk.
I am expecting every hour the arrival of Count Holstein, brother of the Elector of Mainz.
The building, with its enormous expanse of tables and benches ex- hibiting everything from angel food cake to stalks of corn 14 feet high, seemed to have about as many afternoon visitors as usual, who either hadn't heard the news from the Holstein shed or were contrary enough to be more interested in flowers and vegetables than in corpses.
Where by day our small herd of Holsteins drank, grazed, drowsed on their stolid feet slowly filling their enormous milk-bags, near-motionless as black-and-white papier-mache, beasts, only the twitching of their tails, warding off flies, to give you the idea they're alive.
Lifted the seat, unzipped and urinated into the bowl with no more self-consciousness than one of our Holsteins pissing into the very pond out of which she and the other cows are drinking.
He will wait until our factories are no more and our presses are dismantled and the lot of us are in the fields milking Holsteins and tending flocks of sheep with our thumbs up our agrarian asses.
Just a boxy, two-story farmhouse, unchanged, as far as he could tell, from when the Tikalskys raised Holsteins and children here.
We passed farms where men in coveralls and earflapped caps were herding Holsteins to white buildings for the morning milking.
Holsteins nudge pasture gates, ready for the confinement of their stanchions and the morning's date with the milking machine.
Milks a hundred Holsteins an hour in a computerized milking parlor.
He was in the stable under the barn, sitting on a milking stool with his forehead against the black and white flank of a Holstein cow.
Both Germany and Denmark claimed Schleswig and Holstein, and the people living there were forever arguing about who they should belong to.